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ˈpɒv ər tipover·ty

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. poverty

    Poverty denotes strictly lack of property or adequate means of support, but in common use is a relative term denoting any condition below that of easy, comfortable living; privation denotes a condition of painful lack of what is useful or desirable, tho not to the extent of absolute distress; indigence is lack of ordinary means of subsistence; destitution is lack of the comforts, and in part even of the necessaries of life; penury is especially cramping poverty, possibly not so sharp as destitution, but continuous, while that may be temporary; pauperism is such destitution as throws one upon organized public charity for support; beggary and mendicancy denote poverty that appeals for indiscriminate private charity.

    Synonyms:
    beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, mendicancy, need, pauperism, penury, privation, want

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. poverty

    Synonyms:
    want, need, indigence, destitution

Princeton's WordNet2.4 / 8 votes

  1. poverty, poorness, impoverishmentnoun

    the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

    Synonyms:
    exiguity, leanness, impoverishment, pauperization, poorness, meagreness, meagerness, scantiness, pauperisation, scantness

    Antonyms:
    wealthiness, wealth

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. povertynoun

    Synonyms:
    indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, distress, straitened circumstances

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. povertynoun

    Synonyms:
    penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism, deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness

    Associated words:
    impoverish, impoverishment

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How to use poverty in a sentence?

  1. Jim Yong Kim:

    To end poverty, we must continue to expand our understanding of how to manage disasters and deploy this knowledge aggressively.

  2. President Trump:

    Last month, unemployment reached its lowest level in 51 years, 1.3 million children have been lifted out of poverty -- think of that. And, African-American, Hispanic AmericanandAsian American unemployment rates have reached the lowest levels in history. Our great Hispanic American population has reached a poverty level which is an all-time low in U.S. history. ... The median income for Hispanic Americans has surpassed $ 50,000 a year for the first time ever.

  3. Gillian Hawker:

    Poverty is associated with poor diet and less opportunity for physical activity which increases the risk for obesity and in turn for osteoarthritis.

  4. Leslie Boissiere:

    Thirteen million children continue to live in poverty in spite of the economic growth that we have seen recently, and low unemployment, in those border states, its as many as one in five. So youre seeing a higher rate of poverty among children in those states.

  5. Delfina Raffo:

    I feel we are just going to continue on the same path we've been going along ... with ever more poverty, and the middle class being pulled lower.


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